Barbed-wire fence



(No Model.)

J. W. GRISWOLD.

BARBED WIRE FENCE.

No. 465,645. Patented 1300.22, 1891.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN OOL GRISIVOLD, OF TROY, NEIV YORK.

BARIMBED-WIRE FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 465,645, dated December 22, 1891.

Application filed June 15, 1891. Serial No. 396,262. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN WOOL GRIswoLD, of Troy, Rensselaer county, New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Barbed-VVire Fences, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of wire fencing which is composed of a series of links, usually barbed; and it consists in the construction of said links and their combination to form a continuous fencing.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved fencing. Fig. 2 is a side View. Fig. 3 is a sectional view on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

Each link a 1) consists of a length of wire A, doubled or halved on itself to form at one end of said link the eye B. One end of the doubled-over ire A is bent to form an eye C. The other end of the doubled-over Wire A is bent in the opposite direction to form an eye D. The two eyes C and D are placed side by side, as shown. One extremity E of the Wire A, after the eye O is formed, passes outside of its own standing part and trans versely across both parallel strands of the link on one side thereof. The other extremity F of the Wire A, after the eye B is formed, passes outside of its own standing part and then transvesrely across both parallel strands of thelink on the side opposite to the end E.

adjacent link. The eyes 0 and D are placed parallel one to the other.

I claim l. A Wire-fencing link composed of a length of wire doubled to form a loop or eye B at one extremity of the link and having its extremities bent in relatively opposite directions to produce the eyesOD, each extremity E F of said wire passing outside of its own standing part and then transversely across both parallel strands of the link on opposite sides thereof and protruding to form a barb.

2. A Wire fencing composed of a series of enchained links, each link being composed of a length of wire doubled to form a loop or eye B at one extremity of the link and having its extremities bent in relatively opposite directions to produce the eyes 0 D, each extremity E F of said wire passing outside of its own standing part and then transversely across both parallel strands of the link on opposite sides thereof and protruding to form a barb, the eye B of one link engaging with the eyes 0 D of the next adjacent link.

JOHN VOOL GRISl/VOLD.

Witnesses:

ALBERT SMITH, HENRY W. SMITH. 

